[UFO Chicago] Fighter Jet from Last Night's Meeting

[Neil R. Ormos]

The fighter jet I mentioned at last night's
meeting was the F-22 from Lockheed.  I think Larry
had suggested the F-22 procurement had been
cancelled, but it lived on in the form of a
spectacularly accurate representation in a video
game.  However, a story in Thursday's Dallas
Morning News reports that the Air Force is buying
20 aircraft per year in 2007 through 2009, with
total procurement set at 183. I've read elsewhere
that about 100 have already been procured, but I
don't know if that means that they all have been
delivered or just that funds have been
appropriated by Congress.

-> F-22 is on the right flight path, Air Force
-> says

-> 10:44 PM CDT on Thursday, October 12, 2006

-> By RICHARD WHITTLE / Special Contributor to The
-> Dallas Morning News

-> [ . . . ] Recent congressional approval of Air
-> Force requests to negotiate a multiple-year
-> contract to buy F-22s from Lockheed allows them
-> to turn their attention to other procurement
-> needs, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and
-> Gen. T. Michael "Buzz" Moseley, the service's
-> chief of staff, told reporters. [ . . . ]

-> Last year the Pentagon approved a final number
-> of 183. [ . . . ]

  <http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/101306dnbusf22.3017e82.html>

--Neil